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Photometry of close pairs

I think many have problems with photometry of close pairs of stars for subtracting the brightness of the component from the total brightness. If for bright stars it is not difficult to determine the brightness of components in catalogs, then for faint stars 14-17m this is a problem.
Now in the VizieR published photometry from Pan-STARRS DR1, it is ideal for faint stars. Is there a table for correcting g,r,i,z,y-magnitudes of Pan-STARRS into V Johnson's photometry?

In the spreadhseet I provide, you can use add the g an r Pan-STARRS1 photometry to the SDSS g and r columns.
You can also add r in the CMC15 r mag column and determine V from 2MASS colors.
ot results will slightly differ, you can use the one more cosnistent with the other catalogues. Transformations are not so accurate since errors in one of the sources spread easily to the final result.
The above is valid for IPHAS and VPHASDR2 r values too.

Cheers,
Sebastian

PS: I have found that Pan-STARRS1 tend to give results slightly fainter than the other sources (~0.1 mag.).